Drunk people are usually more limber.

@Mik said in When WH Auden taught school: I loved the classes that challenged me to think, not just ingest and regurgitate. Mostly writing and poli sci. Just about the wildest ride I ever took was with Auden's Age of Anxiety. It's Ulysses but in verse. And it constantly changes to match the message. He doesn't get nearly enough credit for it. In writing it, he wrote a lot of letters to Tolkien to understand alliterative verse better. Those letters are so enlightening about how English works.

Is a personal dictatorship better or worse than an impersonal dictatorship? Asking for a friend…

@Mik said in The universe is five miles long...: @Aqua-Letifer said in The universe is five miles long...: @Mik said in The universe is five miles long...: Sadly not available on Kindle. I didn't know you were a Kindle man. I’m not, but iPad reads them fine. I just got a Boox Poke 5. Basically a fully functioning tablet that uses e-ink. So, I can get the kindle, kobo and B&N apps on it, as well as Substack. And it has audio, so I can put my Audible account on there, too. One Device to Rule Them All.

“Cosplaying a Selma moment”. What a great turn of phrase.

I also think that knowing how to shoot accurately would be a great help for a number of saxophonists I've met.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/05/white-rural-rage-myth-00150395 Another guy whose research appears in the book. Basically, he says the book is BS (and he's a Democrat).

Dan Froomkin is a trailblazer in the area of online accountability journalism with more than two decades of experience building, editing and contributing to websites including the Huffington Post, The Intercept, and the Nieman Foundation's Watchdog Project. Over 12 years at the Washington Post, he served as Editor of the website and wrote its enormously popular White House Watch column. He teaches at New York University's American Journalism Online master’s program. He began his career at the Winston-Salem Journal, the Miami Herald, and the Orange County Register.

Crocodile tears.

Plaid flannel are my dress shirts, which I wear with my dress shorts.

...seeing J6 patriots branded as domestic terrorists and political prisoners..... LOL

@jon-nyc said in Would this guy even be nominated today?: As for the question, he’d have as much chance as Ronald Reagan would in today’s GOP. They’d both be lucky not to be booed off the stage. And we’re definitely worse off for it. Agree 100%. The extreme sides of each side seem to have the agenda right now. Unfortunate.

By the way, a Disney and DeSantis settled. So who won?

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Until the world decides otherwise we need to maintain the advantage.

@Mik said in Go To Hell: And I think one worth telling. We tend to think it couldn’t happen again, but we see the seeds everywhere. Absolutely.

@Copper said in Let me introduce you to your public defender: She's not a slave to fashion. In the various comments the Twitteratti are posting are discussions about what is appropriate for an attorney to wear into a courtroom. Many seem to think that this attire is...not courtroom-appropriate.